Mat 9:14-17, Luk 5:33-39 | ISV | STEP | A Question about Fasting Then John's disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?”

Matthew 9:14-17

14 A Question about Fasting Mark 2:18-22; Luke 5:33-39Then John's disciples came to Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. him} and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, ^{▼▼Other mss. lack often} but your disciples don't fast?”Mark 2:18; Luke 5:33; 18:12

15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests can't mourn as long as the groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.”John 3:29; Acts 13:2-3; 14:23; 1Cor 7:5

The Unshrunk Cloth Mark 2:21; Luke 5:36

16 “No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. 17 Nor do people ^{▼▼Lit. they} pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Luke 5:33-39

33 A Question about Fasting Matthew 9:14-17; Mark 2:18-22Then they said to him, “John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples ^{▼▼Lit. yours} keep right on eating and drinking.”Matt 9:14; Mark 2:18

34 But Jesus said to them, “You can't force the wedding guests to fast while the groom is still with them, can you? 35 But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and in those days they will fast.”

36 The Unshrunk Cloth Matthew 9:16; Mark 2:21Then he told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, the new will tear, and the piece from the new will not match the old.Matt 9:16-17; Mark 2:21-22 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will make the skins burst, the wine ^{▼▼Lit. it} will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. 38 Rather, new wine is to be poured into fresh wineskins. 39 No one who has been drinking old wine wants new wine, for he says, ‘The old is excellent!’” ^{▼▼Other mss. lack this verse}